Re: [PATCH RFC 01/77] PCI/MSI: Fix return value when populate_msi_sysfs() failed

Ben Hutchings
2013-10-03T21:46:21Z

On Wed, 2013-10-02 at 17:39 -0700, Jon Mason wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 12:48:17PM +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
>
> Since you are changing the behavior of the msix_capability_init
> function on populate_msi_sysfs error, a comment describing why in this
> commit would be nice.
[...]

This function was already treating that error as fatal, and freeing the
MSIs. The change in behaviour is that it now returns the error code in
this case, rather than 0. This is obviously correct and properly
described by the one-line summary.

Ben.

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